Improvement in tags



J. P. PULTZ.

Improvement in Tags.

No. 130,152. rimmed/wg` 6,1872.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN P. PULTZ, OF PLANTSVILLE, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND L.V. WALKLEY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN TAGs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,152, dated August6, 1872.

I, JOHN P. PULTZ, of Plantsville, in the county of Hartford and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvement in Tags,of which the following is a specication:

My invention consists of the improved article of manufacture, to wit: Atag having a broad, flat, metallic disk firmly clinched to the body ofthe tag around the eyelethole, as hereafter described.

In the accompanying` drawing, Figure lis a plan view of one side of atag embodying my improvement; Fig. 2, a plan view of the opposite sideof the same; Fig. 3, a plan View of the metallic blank which forms theeyelet; Fig. 4, a transverse section of Figs. l and 2 on a line throughthe center of the eyelet.

A designates a fiat metallic disk providedl with an eyelet-hole in itscenter, and also with a cluster of points or prongs, a. The disk A isstamped out with its points a extending outward, as shown in Fig. 3,after which the said points are bent up at about right angles to thesides of the disk A. The ordinary eyelet-hole is'punched in the tag B,and also several incisions are punched or cut around the eyelet-hole tocorrespond with the number and position ofthe points a, which points areinserted in said incisions with their ends passing through the paper ofwhich the tag B is composed, after which the said points are clinchedupon the sideopposite the disk A, as shown in Fig. 2. I prefer to use aswagingtool and die to clinch the points a, which swage will offset thatportion of the paper near the disk A, and thus bring the under side ofsaid disk nearly central with the thickness of the tag B, as shown bythe section, Fig. 4.

By my invention I produce a new and superior article for a tag, beingmuch more durable and less liable to tear out around the eyelet-holethan any tag previously produced.

It is well known that tags have formerly been made with metaleyeletshaving a rounded narrow rim but such eyelets are easily torn out.I am also aware that a flat washershaped piece of paper or textilefabric, secured by adhesive cement around the eyelet-hole of' a tag, isold, as shown in the patent to E. W. Dennison, January 9, 1863 5 andthat a diskshaped piece of metal provided with prongs has been used as apart of a paper clasp for securing the aps of envelopes together, asshown in the patent to R. S. Jennings, June 26, 1866. I make no claim toeither of the three above-described devices; but' I claim as myinvention- As a new article of manufacture, the herein-described tag B,the eyelet-holein said tag being surrounded by the broad, dat, metallicdisk A, firmly clinched to the paper composing the body of the tag B bymeans of a cluster of points, as shown and described.

JOHN P. PULTZ.

Witnesses:

STEPHEN WALKLEY, ROYAL C. MIX.

